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Judge Youngdahl, 17 years a jurist, was Minnesota's three-time Republican governor when appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1951 by Harry Truman (in a neat political double play to behead Minnesota's Republican Party and help the state's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey). In last week's hearing he was the sole judge of his own fitness. The next day, in an outraged memorandum, he judged himself fit, retained the Lattimore case, rebuked federal prosecutors for acting "irresponsibly and recklessly." Their purpose, he concluded, was "to discredit, in the public mind...
...pedaling his tricycle outside his home when a terrorist bounded out of the woods. The terrorist swung his panga at the child's curly head and all but decapitated the boy. Captured, the Kikuyu tribesman said he had just taken the Mau Mau oath which pledged him to behead a European...
...afternoon of Aug. 10, 1945, Osamu Satano's superior officers took him to an open field near the Fukuoka crematory in northern Kyushu. There Satano had to "volunteer" to behead a captured U.S. B-29 airman. After he had swung the executioner's sword, Satano watched one of his officers torture another prisoner to death by shooting arrows...
...factories, sabotage spread. Among the Austrian divisions of the Wehrmacht apathy grew apace; SS troops had to be hustled in where Austrians had ceased to care. Grimly the Nazi courts handed out orders to behead. Soberly the people of Austria clustered before the orange-colored posters in the public squares, reading the lists of the executed. The people were silent, fearing spies...
Reports printed in the Springfield News about the kidnapping of six soldiers in Pampana he believes, are probably inaccurate. For as he maintains, the only wild people there are mountain tribes, "Igorots"--wild dogs, and they don't abduct but behead captives...